STATEMENT ON VITALISTIC HEALING:Mar
Yeshua, the Master Jesus, used what today is known as a vitalistic approach
to disease and healing. Christian churches have interpreted this in doctrines of
"faith healing," applying techniques such as laying-on-of-hands,
prayer, and credal affirmations. In some denominations these techniques are used
along with extremist vegetarian or vegan diets, self-prescribed herbs, and
supplements as a practice of medicine, often with terrible results. In its
Mind-Body Temple instruction, and in various programs of the Caduceus Institute
and the T:.H:.G:. Long-Life Empowerment that approach health and disease from a
vitalistic perspective, the Home Temple has adopted an interpretation of
vitalism radically different from that of traditional charismatic Christianity.
It balances the benefits of modern allopathic medical treatment, which is
defined as medical practice, with homeopathic, nutritional, hypnotherapeutic,
yogic, and other forms of so-called "alternative" consultation and
self-treatment, which we understand as taking responsibility for our own
holistic wellness. The following are the policies concerning Vitalistic Healing
that govern health practices recommended by the Home Temple and it special
ministries through the Caduceus Institute:

The Vitalistic approach to healing regards body, mind,
and emotions to be expressions of the Vital Force, which has also been known
by such terms as Qi, Prana,Vigor Vitae, and others.

The Vital Force is the energy that animates all living
things and withdraws at death.

Each person is an Imago Dei capable of cultivating
Vital or Life Force, and therefore must take primary responsibility for
his/her own health.

Prevention of disease, premature aging, and ill-health
through cultivation of the Vital Force enhances the immune system and
optimizes physical and mental wellness.

There is a growing body of science that must be made
accessible to all people who wish to take primary responsibility for their
own health.

Valuable wellness practices and treatments are embedded
in ancient, traditional, and other vitalistic forms of healing that rely
upon steps that can be taken only by individual effort, such as Qi Gung,
Homeopathy, Traditional Foods, Hypnotherapy, and various advanced yogas.

Home Temple educational literature will recommend
specific programs and products that have demonstrated clinical effectiveness
in peer-reviewed studies.

In June of the year 2001 the Home Temple
was incorporated as a California Non-Profit Religious Corporation. Previous to
this time it had operated as an unincorporated not-for-profit religious
organization supported by non-tax-exempt private donations.In February of 2002 the Home Temple was
granted federal I.R.S. tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) religious corporation.Pursuant to I.R.S. requirement that our
exemption application, supporting documents, and the letter granting exemption
be available for public inspection, and that this requirement can be met by
placing these documents on the internet, we have bundled them into a PDF file
that can be viewed by taking the following links: